Welcome to justlikegrapes.com! I’m Steven, and this is my little corner of the Internet.
There’s no telling what all I’ll write about here, but you can expect topics to include music, art, technology, software development, woodworking, community, my philosophy of life, open culture, and parenting among other things.
The Ideals page is a work in progress.
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This is my Lifeview (Designing Your Life ) as of 25 January 2026.
We’re here because we’re here. I don’t know why we’re here. I can tell you why we’re here from a high-level biological, ecological perspective. I can tell you why we’re here from a number of different Christian perspectives. I’m still not sure what the meat of it is, though. We’re here because we’re here.
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This is my Workview (Designing Your Life ) as of 24 January 2026.
Work is what we do productively with our lives. It can incorporate activities from other areas of life like play or worship or social interaction, but it doesn’t have to. We work to produce and to provide service. Ideally (and ostensibly) it’s done for the preservation and betterment of our communities. Those communities can exist at any scale from hyper-local to worldwide.
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I recently ran across this post (shared by someone on HackerNews) about starting a school (or university as they sometimes refer to it) with friends, and it’s stuck in my mind as a great idea. I’ve always enjoyed teaching things on a small, casual level, and I’ve thought for a long time about the possibility of teaching in a more formal scenario. FractalU is still pretty casual compared to nationally accredited, endowment-backed universities, but the framework they’ve set up gives it a measure of formality – a nice middle ground, I think.
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